Paper, 'The measure of the parts of a gyant-child [giant child], born in Scotland' by Sir Robert Moray
Reference number: CLP/13/1
Date: 01 July 1663
Description
Moray provides the measurements of an unusually large 22-month-old child, including leg, neck, shoulders, thigh given in inches. Also provides the measurements of a herring caught off the coast of Scotland, with a paper cut-out of a fish attached.
Subject: Anatomy / Zoology
Read to the Royal Society on 1 July 1663
- Reference number
- CLP/13/1
- Earliest possible date
- 01 July 1663
- Physical description
- Ink on paper
- Page extent
- 4 pages
- Format
- Manuscript
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Robert Moray, Paper, 'The measure of the parts of a gyant-child [giant child], born in Scotland' by Sir Robert Moray, 01 July 1663, CLP/13/1, The Royal Society Archives, London, https://makingscience.royalsociety.org/items/clp_13_1/paper-the-measure-of-the-parts-of-a-gyant-child-giant-child-born-in-scotland-by-sir-robert-moray, accessed on 24 January 2026
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